Dorcas and Fechin

b sharp · 16 Jun 2008, 14:23 · from 2008-June.txt.gz

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: bsharporflat at hotmail.com (b sharp)
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:23:30 -0400
Subject: (urth) Dorcas and Fechin
Message-ID: <BAY103-W25382F7335E015BC19A47D7A90 at phx.gbl>

I like Thalassocrat's post connecting Dorcas and Fechin. Some new wrinkles I hadn't considered.  
But if Fechin is Dorcas' father then Casdoe's (or Becan's?) father, as an age peer of Fechin, is REALLY 
old. A generation older than Dorcas' husband who appears to be dead by the end of Citadel.

I'll resurrect some of my theory (as Dave Tallman remembers) that Fechin is Dorcas' husband, with an 
additional twist:

DORCAS' HUSBAND                              FECHIN                                   FATHER INIRE     

always losing material                      always losing material
    posessions                                          posessions

hangs out a lot in                              museum curator has                builds museums and is                                                     
a museum                                        a special fondness                   associated with the guild
                                                       for Fechin                               of curators

lives in a loft;                                   creative and artistic                   creative and artistic
married into an
artsy family

is short and bent                                                                               is short and bent

                                                    resembles a monkey                     resembles a monkey

attracted to very                                                                               attracted to very  
young girls                                                                                        young girls

For me the shared constellation of traits ties these three characters together more than any two of them
can be tied together. especially if the blanks in the chart are filled in.  Perhaps all three are the same 
person.  As the old Autarch fills multiple roles in Urth society, long lived Father Inire fills even more roles.  
And the alien element in Severian's family tree explains for me the Oedipal problem, the Zeus references, 
allusions to shapeshifters on Urth, and even all the different monkeys who seem to be peeking in on 
Severian during his adventures.  

(is Thecla's heraldry book with enameled illustrations meant to be connected to cloisonne?)

-bsharp
_________________________________________________________________
Now you can invite friends from Facebook and other groups to join you on Windows Live? Messenger. Add now.
https://www.invite2messenger.net/im/?source=TXT_EML_WLH_AddNow_Now

An unofficial mirror of a public mailing list · about & removal requests · download the archive · before the list · original archive at urth.net